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I had read those, but I didn't see anything military right-wing in them.

And which of his comments makes you think so?

Maybe men's rights advocates mostly fight about unreasonable feminism then.

If you have any links to reasonable feminism, I would be glad to receive them. I am still looking for examples for that.

I read the first article you linked to, but couldn't find any reference to rape threats by Men's Rights Advocates. That some women receive rape threats on the internet is an entirely different matter. There have also been episodes of feminists faking such rape threat comments. Let's stay on the sane side.

In any case, I only know Karen Straughan (Girl Writes What), who seems very reasonable to me. Not sure how she is associated with A Voice For Men, but she did call for donations for them recently.

And, let's step back a moment: did animus9 write any death threats to women, or did he indeed write anything about men's rights before being accused of being an MRA member? Then why are we having this discussion again?

So advocating mens right is equal to being a rightwing military cult person?

Are you really of the opinion that men's rights are not important?

Also, ad hominem...

There are many famous female coders working atm, I think there is even a web site dedicated to them.

The problem is when you require a "wave". Then people start getting really confused about statistics and correlation vs causation.

"It’s not because I can’t speak as well or I don’t know the material — it’s because he fits the mold so much better."

Did you ever test that assumption?

Maybe you should do more fun things with your kid? You could even leave the house together with the kid. A further step might be visiting other people with kids, leaving the kids to play with each other and their parents with time to drink coffee and chat in the kitchen.

Or get an iPad.

Maybe they sere not disadvantaged because general standards are low?

Actually the topic is a can of worms, we could go on about the purpose of school. I suspect teaching critical thinking is not what schools really want - they want to provide the industry with willing workers. In that context creationists perhaps aren't worse off much, but that doesn't mean much.

"I do believe that all private schools (...) have the right to teach whatever inanity they decide"

In a way I agree, because it's kind of like free speech.

On the other hand, shouldn't a society be responsible for protecting children? Schools teach children, after all. It's different from somebody voluntarily picking a topic to learn about.

Seems to me children being taught Creationism might be seriously disadvantaged.

Then again, by what standard? For example, what if being immersed in some cult brings total happiness, even if it looks insane from the outside? Should it be disallowed to raise kids as devote cult members?

Well sure sometimes work is necessary. But too many people never question it. That is what I worry about. Working at the gas station will only get you through the day, it will never set you free.

I think there will be enough opportunities for the kid to learn about having to work (like household chores, school homework).

And actually even setting up for enjoyable work will probably have some less enjoyable aspects.

And also, creating your own business isn't easy.

You might want to add a spoiler warning to that, as the actual mechanism behind it is not immediately revealed in the story :-)

Still, I don't see why the Predictor couldn't work in the same way - how would you determine that it doesn't?